Eileen A. Lacey (1961) is an American biologist who specializes in the evolution of behavioral diversity among vertebrates.
[1] She is most known for her research on the social structure of naked mole rats and her arguments regarding the eusociality continuum[2] Lacey spent her undergraduate years at Cornell University where she established her research on mole rats in the laboratory.
Her doctoral thesis was "Reproductive and dispersal strategies of male arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii plesius)" ,[3] Lacey is currently a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she manages the Lacey Lab.
The Lacey Lab focuses on vertebrate social behavior and population biology and encompasses a variety of taxa and topics.
She is also the co-editor of a comprehensive work on subterranean rodents, Lacey, Eileen A., James L. Patton, and Guy N. Cameron.